Posted by Travez on September 02, 19113 at 05:41:21:
In Reply to: Cabas Vanessa Bruno posted by Janicemmq on August 21, 19113 at 21:37:24:
in the meeting last month, 'Li Bai was very good at Yuefu (folksong-style pceies), Chinese ottavas and quartrains. we guys today can hardly surpass him in these fields. every time he visited a town, he celebrated the girls there'.my second thought: he could be sincere. i was a civil servant here; i had quite a few english-speaking collegues. they told me: when u are drunk, u find all the chicks (SIC) goodlooking.FENG Xiang has read medieval English-French-German literatures, and submitted a PhD thesis on Chaucer at Havard, is now a practicing lawyer in the US. he highly esteems Verlaine's late erotic poems (Zhengfa biji. Nanjing people's P: 2004, available at the law library, HKU). they were dedicated to commonplace women in the Paris brasseries.a reader familiar w/ french renaissance love poetry would not be surprised.in the dark, all cats are black.--a common saying in English, french and german after Hegel.FOK Wai-hung, dec 23, 2008